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The beginning of a brand new supernatural private investigator series starring one Sylvie Lightner, whose beat covers south Miami Beach.

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The continuing adventures of Raine Benares, a Seeker who can’t stay out of trouble, with a sarcastic bite and and an amulet that’s taken control of her life.

This time, demon hordes, a gate that’s yawned into hell, and what can only be called Elric’s Bane, all threaten to pull her down.

Oh, and she’s managed to get bonded to two powerful men, each on opposing sides of good and light. I’m pretty sure this is an archetype story element by now.

The previous two books in this series are both on the Kindle: Magic Lost, Trouble Found and Armed & Magical.

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The newest chapter in the Lost Fleet series. I’m not sure I can concisely describe what’s going on from the multiple synopses on the web. One may need to start from the beginning of the series to appreciate what’s going on.

I rather liked John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War series, and this series keeps getting recommended to me on a fairly consistent basis, so I need to try one of these some day.

For the curious, the Lost Fleet series is entirely available on the Kindle:

1. Dauntless
2. Fearless
3. Courageous
4. Valiant

Oh, SF/F series and your naming patterns. Never change.

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Far future space opera writ on enormous time scales across this series, following one post-human, Imre Bergamasc: pervious engram incarnation, previous murder victim, previous ruler of the galaxy, now abdicated, having brought along a sort of peace.

But peace never does last.

The other books in the Astropolis series are available in the Kindle store: Saturn Returns and
Earth Ascendant.

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I think I’m going to cry. Robert Asprin has been gone since last May. Almost a year now. He was a funny man.

This is obviously a legacy written while he was still alive from the previous year, only now published, and a sequel to Dragons Wild, in the world of underworld dragons. Who run speakeasies and gambling joints.

Godspeed, Mr. Asprin.

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Finally, book one of this series starring Kate Daniels, mercenary with a BFS in an alternate Atlanta where magic has invaded reality.

The series is now almost complete on the Kindle, alongside Magic Burns and Magic Strikes, save for an upcoming fourth book.

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Sawyer is back in full form with Wake, the start of the WWW series. The Internet has woken up. That is so very cool and full of awesome.

There’s also an intelligent monkey and Chinese revolutionary bloggers battling against a (still) repressive government. What more can you ask for? Well, okay, ninjas and pirates. Still.

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A makeup artist with the magic power to literally transform people (not that they’re entirely aware of it). If this means fewer hours under latex mold creation, I’m sure this is every SF/F TV/movie actor’s dream.

Her latest client unfortunately becomes possessed by a powerful and dark forest god.

The previous book in the saga of the LaZelle family, A Fistful of Sky, is also available on the Kindle. I don’t believe there are any other LaZelle books around, print or not.

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Magic cyberpunk. Ravirn is thrown into an alternate universe and must hack his way back into our reality.

The previous books in this series—which is a definite you-should-not-miss if you’re a tech geek who also happens to love fantasy—are all available on the Kindle:

1. WebMage
2. Cybermancy
3. Codespell

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Another paranormal crime series with a strong female lead, Tess Corday (an OSI, Occult Special Investigator). Her beat is Vancouver, and now I want this book, because it covers Vancouver.

(Supernatural investigator books have a strong presence of specific city, usually, like Dresden’s Chicago or Chen’s Singapore Three.¹ Books in “our age” usually are deeply tied to a modern city, not always where the author lives.

You can pretty much identify each such series by city. It’s like they all stake out their own claim in Idea Space.)

The other book in this series, Night Child, is also available in the Kindle store.

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In a post-apocalyptic world, an ex-marine establishes an autocratic fortress/school for troubled young rich folks. Things go horribly wrong, and teenage geeks save the world.

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Regular Joes and Janes are recruited to act as Witnesses for the atonement acts of an alien race. Through Craig’s List. Or something like it (this is near-future SF).

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Modesitt launches another fantasy trilogy.

An apprentice artist learns he’s an Imager—what he wishes comes true. This is almost never good (and it really isn’t) and causes much trouble for him (as par for such courses).

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Based on the hit video game of the same name, and a prequel to Dragon Age: Origins (not yet on the Kindle).

A deposed prince Maric must take back his father’s lands. Fortunately he has an army. Unfortunately, he can safely trust about a total of two people in the world: an outlaw and a warrior maiden.

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An idea SF tale: a tycoon wakes up in the 24th century, where society has become a sort of Ayn-Randian utopia¹, controlled by corporations and the free market, where people own stock in each other in lieu of actual relationships.

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All three books of the main trilogy rolled up into one. Lest you be spurned by the more-than-$10 price ($15.42 as of this writing, but could go down in the future and usually does), remember that this is three (very large) books rolled up into one.

Nice cover, eh? I like the covers of these guys. See more below, along with The Hobbit.

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Many people love The Hobbit and dislike the trilogy, others love the trilogy and wish they could forget The Hobbit. And still many more love both.

This is getting downloaded to my Kindle as of this instant.

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I had no idea that this post-humous tale from Tolkien had made it to Real Story status (what about The Silmarillion? Although that really was more notes-ish and short-story-ish). If you can’t get enough of Tolkien, you could get this.

It’s sort of depressing. Well, it’s really depressing. Bit of a downer.

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The first book in the trilogy is also sold separately if for some reason you desire this.

It’s also my favorite. If I were a real stickler, I probably would just buy only this one and forget the rest, but so many of us are completists at heart….

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The second book in the trilogy is also sold separately, although I don’t know why anybody would only want The Two Towers and not Return of the King; those two are bound together far more tightly than with Fellowship.

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The final volume in the trilogy, should you desire to get this by itself and not rolled up with the others.

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Do you miss good fantasy world-building?

In Lamentation you’ll find a far-future war brewing between kingdoms against a background of culture and history that’s forgotten us—but remains, as ever, extremely human. Yes, there is magic.

There’s quite a bit of free material out there if you want to explore the world of Lamentation a bit:

Free short story for everybody:
A Weeping Czar Beholds the Fallen Moon

Free story for members of Tor.com (registration is free):
Last Flight of the Goddess

An excerpt from the history of The Named Lands:
An Excerpt from The Rise of the Named Lands: A Brief History of the Settlement of the New World and the Establishment of Kin-Clave

Free previews:
Prelude and Chapter 1
Chapter 2

Author speaks:
An Unexpected Novel and the Influences Behind It
Interview with Jay Lake (YouTube)

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The prequel to Truancy, read about the origins of a future totalitarian city with an oppressive school system that makes Little Brother look like Judy Blume… and the underground group of students who will take it down.

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A heist-and-caper novel set in a fantasy Elizabethan England, where an unlikely and highly pragmatic hero, normally a playwright, ends up on a mission to Save the World.

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A reclusive cartoonist, who normally resides in California, is sent a mysterious package from a relative to deliver to his uncle in New Cyprus—and discovers that the package isn’t what it seems, and that his uncle is part of an organization that originates from the Knights of Templar, entrusted to salvaging and protecting magical artifacts. Of course, nothing works as planned.

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She wants a normal life, for Chrissakes. She didn’t want to inherit the family business.

But when Death is kidnapped for a non-Holiday, she must take his place—but that’s proving to be harder than simply returning home to chair Death, Incorporated.

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She likes to kill things. In particular, vampires. After the events of the previous book, Break of Dawn, she leaves Hollywood for England to exterminate the next vampire lair and perhaps work out some problems. This is, of course, never easy.

All of the previous books are also available in the Kindle store:

1. Night Rising
2. Midnight Reign
3. Break of Dawn

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A return to the world of Coyote, a series of Golden Age Heinlein-esque stories about interstellar colonists settling the Coyote planet, seen mostly through the eyes of adolescents Wendy Gunther and Carlos Montero. In this novel, Coyote has been partly settled by the hjadd, a mysterious alien race, who’ve opened up an embassy—but not necessarily anything else.

The previous books are also all available on the Kindle:

1. Coyote
2. Coyote Rising
3. Coyote Frontier
4. Spindrift

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The third book in the Alchemist series, a medieval alternate history where the cranky Nostradamus’ powers of prediction are real, and he and his apprentice Alfeo Zeno solve murder mysteries.

The previous books, The Alchemist’s Apprentice and The Alchemist’s Code, are also available on the Kindle.

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Atlanta: a city where magic and technology struggle in a never-ending battle for reality, and Kate Daniels lives by the sword. A different kind of urban fantasy.

The first book, Magic Bites, isn’t available on the Kindle, but the second book, Magic Burns, is.

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The fourth book in a fantasy series tracing the adventures of an uneasy partnership between court magician Felix Harrowgate and assassin/cat burglar Mildmay the Fox.

The previous books are also available for the Kindle:

1. Mélusine
2. The Virtu
3. The Mirador

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The beginning of another paranormal private investigator series, starring Sylvie Lightner, in a world where Greek Mythology can really kick your ass.

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High school life can really suck, especially when vampire jocks kill you. Of course, you’re just undead, but it’s not really a life enhancing experience in this world. So Elizabeth is going to take some pages out of Salem’s Lot and see how that works out.

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A new book in the fantasy series The Black Jewels, a world of three parallel fae realms (and Hell) with a caste system based on the magic in your blood (or, perhaps, lack thereof).

All but one of the previous books in this series are available for the Kindle:

1. Daughter of the Blood
2. Heir to the Shadows
3. Queen of the Darkness
4. Dreams Made Flesh (not yet available)
5. Tangled Webs
6. The Invisible Ring

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Another book in a supernatural P.I. series involving Cal Leandros, half-human, half-monster, all detective. And you really, really don’t want to meet his family.

The previous book in this series, Madhouse, is also available on the Kindle.

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All the stories of Private Investigator Gil “The Arm” Hamilton, science fiction mysteries set in the future.

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You are a veterinarian. Your husband comes back from Romania as a werewolf. Discuss.

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Paranormal romance, involving witches and the men who hunt them (who lose a piece of their soul if they happen to kill someone who’s an innocent witch, rather than someone who’s sold their soul to demons).

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Three sister-clones of a Balkwan war criminal must try to save a world that is self-destructing environmentally, geopolitically, and economically.

(Hmmm. That kind of sounds like today.)

Oh, and they all hate each other.

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A vicious plague of demons has reduced humanity to a post-apocalyptic state, hiding in small villages protected by magic wards, or so they hope. Young Arlen, Leesha, and Rojer grow up in different wards, but find they must explore the dangerous world for themselves.

For writers who wonder a little about the editing process, Brett can tell you more.

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The sequel to The Dreaming Void, where a Second Dreamer has triggered a galaxy-ending expansion of the Void. Chaos results.

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Badda-bing, badda-boom, Matter, eight novel in the Culture series, on the Locus Recommended Reading List for 2008, and probably about to get nominated for multiple awards, including the Hugo and the Nebula, is finally available on the Kindle.

In Matter, the mentoring of less technologically advanced species by greater ones is explored in detail in a sort of Russian nesting doll set of the Sari (near Industrial Age), who are mentored by the Oct, who are in turn mentored by the Nariscene, who are in turn mentored by the Morthanveld (and the buck stops there).

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Continuing the story from the acclaimed Y.A. novel Wake, in Fade, Janie and Cabel continue their dream-catching work under Captain, investigating the nightmares surrounding a teacher-run sex ring at a high school.

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Bianca leaves the small town she grew up in for Evernight Academy, a boarding school where everyone possibly glitters she doesn’t fit in, and then meets Lucas, a brooding, aggressive, and over-protective loner.

This might sound a little familiar to fans of Twilight.

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Be careful what you wish for. Be really, really careful.

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In a world like our own, but suffused with magic, Thea is expected to be a powerful magic-wielder. She’s the seventh daughter of a seventh son and a seventh daughter, after all. But when she manifests no abilities at all, she’s sent to the Wandless Academy¹ for the magically challenged… and indeed, her challenges begin to accelerate at a terrible speed. World-saving involved.

Because HarperCollins has a clue, on the same day that the first book in the Worldweavers series was released to the Kindle, so were the other two:

Worldweavers: Spellspam
You think normal spam is bad? Try spam mixed with magic, sent to the students of the Wandless Academy.

Worldweavers: Cybermage
The Federal Bureau of Magic needs Thea to unravel a deadly magical mystery.

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Alternate history fantasy about the last days of the Third Reich, involving as central characters Speer, Himmler, and Dönitz, trying to preserve the regime; and the Flying Magical Loerber Brothers, quadruplets with psychic powers who become insider rebels of the Nazi party.

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A retelling of the famous Indian epic, the Mahābhārata, through the eyes of the wife of the five Pandavas brothers² and her life and times during exile, civil war, and encounters with deities.

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Christopher Moore, irreverent fantasy humorist, turns out an alternate Shakespeare twist on King Lear, where the king’s fool, Pocket, has to muck out the kingdom-wide problems caused by the mad king and his entire troubled court (both alive and dead). With a Moore take on the traditional Shakespeare theatrics and mechanics, to boot. Poor fool.

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The second book in the Seekers series, which is a spinoff of the Warriors fantasy mega-series, this time featuring intelligent bears instead of cats. The previous book, The Quest Begins, is available on the Kindle, along with every Warriors book ever.

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The final book in the Five Ancestors series is now available on the Kindle, featuring a street urchin who gets mixed up with the five greatest criminals in China.

The entire series is available on the Kindle:

1. Tiger
2. Monkey
3. Snake
4. Crane
5. Eagle
6. Mouse

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Sid, the last Synapsid³, who lived 30 million years before the dinosaurs, and is now traipsing into our time to hunt down the vicious gorgonopsid. Rob and Phoebe must help him, or else the entire human race is a stepped-on butterfly, if you know what I mean.

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In a small town in post-Katrinia Louisiana, Iris and her friends play around with being psychic mediums, and Iris accidentally invokes a real and scary ghost, and he’s not anywhere near nice. When he haunts her, she decides to try to solve his murder so that he might have some peace.

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A retelling of the story of Eve, trying to rebuild her life after being cast out of the garden with Adam, and of course the family ties are a bit strained.

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Henry York’s adventures continue, with him still on the farm with his aunt and uncle in boring ol’ Kansas, except for that cupboard with 100 doors⁴ that are portals to other worlds. He decides to start exploring them in the hopes of uncovering his own unknown personal history.

The first book in the series, The 100 Cupboards, is also available on the Kindle.

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A Kabbalist discovers that twelve of the 36 anonymous saints in Jewish folklore are real and exist in the world, and records the fables of each saint and his or her own tale.

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Finally, the first book in the Age of Unreason series is here, based on the question: what if Isaac Newton discovered the laws of Alchemy rather than Gravity? The answer: international magic mayhem.

The second book, A Calculus of Angels, is also available in the Kindle store.

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Expanded from the original Nebula-nominated, Hugo-nominated, and Sturgeon finalist novella, The Walls of the Universe is a story about John and Johnny, each an alternate of the other in another world, who end up trading places. John goes off to explore the multiverse; but unfortunately for him, he finds out too late that the return home is impossible, and Johnny takes over his original life.

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Sabine is no innocent sorceress; she summons and binds a demon king to do her bidding. Unfortunately, she falls in love with warrior (and the heat turns up, of course)… and the demon king ends up binding her instead.

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An epic and large fantasy novel, and the beginning of a new series. In medieval Arthurian Britain, a former apprentice of Merlin must destroy a renegade mage, and must turn to young Danyin, who holds the key to the Blackgloom Keep.

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Part of the Wizard in Rhyme series, wherein Matt, a doctoral student in our world, is transported to an alternate history medieval Europe, where magic is real, and so are God and the Devil. In The Feline Wizard, Matt is now a Royal Magician with his very own apprentice, a feline wizard who suddenly goes missing.

The novels in this series, most of which are unfortunately not available on the Kindle yet:

1. Her Majesty’s Wizard
2. The Oathbound Wizard
3. the Witch Doctor
4. The Secular Wizard
5. My Son, the Wizard
6. The Haunted Wizard
7. The Crusading Wizard
8. The Feline Wizard

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Part of the vampire romance Prime series/universe, featuring a vampire magician and former telepathic werewolf whisperer, who falls in love with a sexy female werewolf.

Other books set in the same universe available on the Kindle:

• I Burn for You
• I Thirst for You
• I Hunger for You
• Crave the Night
• Master of Darkness
• Primal Heat
• Primal Desires

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The fourth and final book in the Winterlands series, where Barbara Hambly does dragons. So far the other three (Dragonsbane, Dragonshadow, and Knight of the Demon Queen) aren’t yet available on the Kindle, and this is probably not a series to start this late.

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What are you going to do when you and your twin find yourselves at the heart of a custody battle between a goddess and… Lucifer himself? Three trials and three temptations and a grandmother out of a Dahl novel.

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Cassiel is a Djinn of utmost power. Well, was. She was cursed and bound in human flesh as punishment for defying her master, and now she lives among us. And an old enemy is hunting her.

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Another volume in Briggs’ smash hit paranormal romance series featuring shape-shifter Mercy Thompson. The other three books are also available on the Kindle: Moon Called, Blood Bound, and Iron Kissed.

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The final book in the Destroyermen series, where ships from different worlds are caught in time and thrown into other dimension. Peace is not a feature. Crusade and Into the Storm are also available for the Kindle.

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Miles Flint is fighting a war on two fronts: first, with the usual corrupted power brokers, and second, with his daughter Talia running off to find her five other clones.

And for $1.59, you can find the Hugo-nominated novella that started the series in The Retrieval Artist and Other Stories, as well as eight other stories featuring Rusch’s characters from various series.

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Another themed short story anthology from Greenberg, this volume features paranormal crime fiction.

The stories:

“Web Ginn House” by Phaedra Weldon
“The Hex is In” by Mike Resnick
“If Vanity Doesn’t Kill Me” by Michael A. Stackpole
“Witness to the Fall” by Joseph E. Lake, Jr.
“The Best Defense” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
“Call of the Second Wolf” by Steven Mohan, Jr.
“The Old Girlfriend of Doom” by Dean Wesley Smith
“Second Sight” by Ilsa J. Bick
“The True Secret of Magic, Only $1.98, box 47, Portland, ORE.”
     by Joseph E. Lake, Jr.
“The Sweet Smell of Cherries” by Devon Monk
“Eye Opening” by Jason Schmetzer
“Faith’s Curse” by Randall Bills
“The Wish of a Wish” by Robert T. Jeschonek
“RPG Reunion” by Peter Orullian
“Treasure” by Leslie Claire Walker
“She’s Not There” by Steve Perry

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A climate crisis novel that takes place far in the future, and is chock full of characters and plot. This is a *big* book.

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Paranormal romance. Shape-shifting dragon lovers. World needs saving. Series of stand-alone books. You know the drill.

The other two books in this series, Kiss of Fire and Kiss of Fury, are now available on the Kindle.

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A paranormal romance in a Scottish seaside village of a different sort: Gabe MacGowan’s pub, Odin’s Thumb, is haunted by ghosts, including that of his dead wife. He hires Allie, an American exorcist, to help him.

Will she succeed in banishing the spirits to the next world? Can he learn how to love again? Find out.

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A first novel (but not the first book for Cockcroft; he has also illustrated children’s picture books) involving time shifting and really surreal things happening around you and to your family.

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The last book in a famous Russian author’s series, Watch. The other books are not yet available for the Kindle (now that’s something we haven’t seen in a while).

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A tale told this time by the prince rather than the princess, Prince George falls in love with strongly independent Princess Beatrice, and discovers not only that she can magically communicate with her hound, but finds himself at the center of an ancient legend.

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A teenage girl with mystical powers that can bring down storms desires most one thing: to meet the father who supposedly died before she was born. The second novel, Breathe, is also available on the Kindle.

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The ties of a tightly-knit family are strained when the father mysteriously disappears, and the kids later discover the underwater world of Ingo, populated by mer-people, and discover that their true heritage is under the sea, so to speak. The story continues in Tide Knot, also available on the Kindle.

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Three women—a coffee shop owner new to town, a web mistress, and an ancient history professor—and their dogs find out that Summerville, Ohio is the center of a supernatural phenomenon involving a goddess who wants to (for some reason) take over Ohio.¹

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Little Firkin, Scotland, is home to Amelie Chase, banished witchling, and her guardian, Fanny Walcott. Really strange things start happening when two travelers come by with strange stories tying to both of their pasts.

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Another vampire paranormal romance series, featuring Jack McShane, a vampire with a family¹ falling in love with Connie Jones, vampire slayer, in a sort of Anita Blake way rather than a Buffy the Vampire Slayer way.² Also, he must save humans from otherwordly threats to the city of Savannah while tourists swarm for St. Patrick’s day.

All the books in the Savannah Vampire series are now available on the Kindle:

1. The Vampire’s Seduction
2. The Vampire’s Secret
3. The Vampire’s Kiss
4. The Vampire’s Betrayal
5. The Vampire’s Revenge

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The beginning of another paranormal series from the author who brought you Women of the Otherworld—now featuring men who step into the wild, other world. Here we have Clayton, a six-year-old orphan werewolf who finds a mentor and the American werewolf pack and manages to make a dire enemy as well. It’s the American werewolf coming-of-age story, only rougher and meaner.

Most of the books in the Women of the Otherworld series are all available on the Kindle:

1. Bitten (Elena, werewolf)
2. Stolen (Elena)
3. Dime Store Magic (Paige, witch)
4. Industrial Magic (Paige)
5. Haunted (Eve, witch)
6. Broken (Elena, now pregnant)
7. No Humans Involved (Jaime, necromancer)
8. Personal Demon (Hope, a half-demon)
9. Living with the Dead (Hope)

There’s also free online fiction to peruse.

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The second volume of the Alchymist’s Legacy duology, a fantasy epic featuring two young mages—the impulsive Rieuk who accidentally frees a demon, and vengeful Celestine, who unknowingly becomes the demon’s protege. And now seven demons are about the wreck havoc on the world, and only Rieuk and Celestine can stop them.

The first half of the duology, Tracing the Shadow, is also available for the Kindle.

John Joseph Adams’ In 60 Seconds, akin to John Scalzi’s The Big Idea, features this duology and the ideas behind it.

The duology itself is part of the larger Tears of Artamon series, set in an alternate 18th century. The other books are also available on the Kindle:

1. Lord of Snow and Shadows
2. Prisoner of the Iron Tower
3. Children of the Serpent Gate

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Very illustrated novel, although the illustrations are in black and white, so this may translate to the Kindle well.

Emiline is a mousehunter in a world populated by extremely varied species of mice (who have, in this alternate world, taken over more than a few vital ecological niches), and sets off to hunt the legendary pirate Mousebeard.

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Also very illustrated, although the annotations should carry over well to the Kindle³: yet another Lovecraft collection, but this time annotated all to heck by avid Lovecraft researchers S. T. Joshi and Peter Cannon, who show the devotion usually only privy to that of cultists of the King in Yellow.

There’s also An H.P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia available for the Kindle, put together by Joshi.

This actually looks to correspond to the first volume of annotated Lovecraft tales (the second is More Annotated H.P. Lovecraft).

If you can’t get enough Lovecraft, buy this book.

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Ginjer Buchanan is more famous as an editor for Ace books, but she also wrote a Highlander novel, wherein “Duncan MacLeod, Hugh Fitzcairn, and Danny O’Donal get trapped in the frozen Yucan,”⁴ and apparently also an endless time loop.

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Stephen Baxter’s Times Tapestry quartology is now complete in the Kindle store. The final volume, Weaver, is on the Locus 2008 Recommended reading list.

The series:

1. Emperor
2. Conqueror
3. Navigator
4. Weaver

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The Horsemistress series is now completely available for the Kindle with the addition of Airs Beneath the Moon.

The series thus for:

1. Airs Beneath the Moon
2. Airs and Graces
3. Airs of Night and Sea

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Another book in the Kitty Norville series, paranormal urban fantasy with more twists than usual.

The Big Question: if werewolves and vampires were real, they’d have a lot of … issues. And frankly not a lot of radio talk show hosts that could handle them.

The solution? Read more at John Scalzi’s Big Idea: Carrie Vaughn feature.

The series is available on the Kindle in its entirety now:

1. Kitty and the Midnight Hour
2. Kitty Goes to Washington
3. Kitty Takes a Holiday
4. Kitty and the Silver Bullet
5. Kitty and the Dead Man’s Hand

Next time, Kitty Raises Hell (available for pre-order).

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In the China seas, a dragon has been kept prisoner, chained by monks who guard her. But as the storms of the sea bring a merchant and a pirate ship together, she finds her freedom—and her imprisonment once more in the mind of a captured cabin boy. Ultimate freedom is a necessary goal; but how to achieve it?

On a side note, here’s a look at the process behind creating that spectacular cover over on Tor.com.

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On her 16th birthday, Anita discovers that she’s the long lost daughter of King Oberon, that her boyfriend is the servant of an evil Faerie lord, and that the Queen has vanished. Shakespearean plays are involved.¹

The first book in a series, followed up by The Lost Queen and Seventh Daughter, all now on the Kindle.

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Another YA book, this time a new volume in the much revered Chrestomanci series/world, which predated Harry Potter by several years. (And I very much loved Witch Week when I was younger.)

Most of the rest of the Chrestomanci series is now also present on the Kindle:

Charmed Life
The Lives of Christopher Chant
Witch Week
The Magicians of Caprona
Mixed Magics (short stories)

Conrad’s Fate is not yet on the Kindle, but it’s one of the more recent books.

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One of our not-YA books for this column.

From the writers who brought you the far-reaching fantasy-science-fiction epic The Death Gate Cycle comes a new epic fantasy series.

The new series also has a Facebook page compiling various links and news postings all in one spot.

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The Galahad is on a mission to recolonize a distant world after Earth is devastated by deadly particles from a passing comet. Its crew: 16 years old and under, due to the population imbalance left after the deadly comet. And while under way, a saboteur appears to be attempting to overthrow the mission and/or kill everybody, thus ending the human race.

Reminds me of a Heinlein YA book. This is also one of the first “Tor Teen” books I’ve seen in the Kindle store, which is excellent.

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Bathory Academy, a New York school for elite vampire girls from established upper-class vampire families, brings a whole new meaning to the phrase “bad girls.”

“What vampires aren’t upper-class?” you may wonder. Well, there’s the New Blood, such as Cally Monture from the bad side of town, and she’s not going to receive such a happy reception from the bad girlz of Bathory.

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Kimi and Hana are fine young ladies of Japan. Not about to become warriors or samurai.

That all changes when their family is brutally torn apart and trampled by betrayal, and Kimi and Hana are determined to seek revenge, a la Hua Mulan.

The second book, Chasing the Secret, is also available for the Kindle.

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(Not YA.)

Magic runs in the streets of Boston, and Evie knows how to tap into that magic, find things, even find people. She’s let this power rest (being psychic or just as good as in fiction is almost never a prospect for sanity or happiness), until a lover from her past returns to stalk her.

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(Not YA.)

Instead of vampires, now it’s the sons and daughters of the Greek gods of dreams and nightmares, the Oneroi, warriors who battle demons to keep the sleeping lives of humans and immortals alike safe. The Dream-Hunters.

The previous books in this series are also available on the Kindle, including:

1. The Dream-Hunter
2. Upon the Midnight Clear
3. Dream Chaser

You probably know Kenyon from her long-running Dark-Hunter series, one of best-selling series in the paranormal romance genre, of which the Dream-Hunter world is a subset. All of Dark-Hunter is now in the Kindle store.

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Not YA.

Also the cover watches you sleep all alone in the night.

Remember the psychic-is-never-happy rule? Yes. Also, there’s romance. Much romance. Much government conspiracy. Also, much romance.